Legal Expert - Assessment Specialist
- Toronto, ON, Canada
Remote
$83 to $105 CAD / hour
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Job details
- Pay
- $83 to $105 CAD / hour
- Workplace
- Remote
- Posting language
- English
Original job description
About the job
Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.
Position: Applied Legal Benchmark Specialist
Type: Contract
Compensation: $83–$105/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: 10+ hours/week
Role Responsibilities
- Author original law questions that test deep conceptual understanding. Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined.
- Rate each question's difficulty as Medium, Hard, or Expert. Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible but subtly incorrect alternatives.
- Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions with clear, concise reasoning in markdown format. Supply 1–5 academic references per question.
- Review pre-written questions for accuracy, clarity, and rigor. Edit where needed, rate difficulty, and document any changes made.
- Flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability in verification tasks. Justify any edits made.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- JD, LLM, SJD, or doctoral candidate in Law or a closely related field.
- Strong command of legal reasoning, statutory interpretation, and jurisprudential theory.
- Excellent written English and ability to express complex legal ideas clearly and concisely.
Preferred
- Experience with bar exam writing, legal academia, or judicial clerkships.
Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
- Upload resume
- AI interview based on your resume
- Submit form
Resources & Support
- For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
- For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com
PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.
More about this job
Responsibilities
The Applied Legal Benchmark Specialist at Mercor will write original law questions with correct answers and plausible wrong options, and write step-by-step solutions with references. The specialist will also review and edit existing questions for accuracy and clarity, and flag problems.
Requirements
Candidates need a JD, LLM, SJD or doctoral candidacy in law or a closely related field. They must show strong legal reasoning, statutory interpretation and jurisprudence skills, and write excellent English.
Skills
- Legal reasoning
- Statutory interpretation
- Jurisprudential theory
- Legal writing
- Question authoring
- Difficulty rating
- Answer distractor design
- Chain-of-thought solution writing
- Legal citation and academic referencing
- Quality review and editing
- Issue flagging and documentation
- Markdown
- AI interview
- Remote work
Categories
- Education
- Legal
- Technology
- Science & Research
Keywords
- legal benchmark
- law question writing
- legal reasoning
- statutory interpretation
- jurisprudence
- bar exam
- legal academia
- judicial clerkship
- LLM evaluation
- AI training
- contract
- remote
- JD
- SJD
- legal writing
- chain-of-thought
- legal assessment
Languages
- English
Fields of study
- Law